This Is A Disaster

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December 03, 2019 Episode 16.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Killing Joke: Escaping the Apocalypse
Leigh's favorite band has had their ups and downs. Aleister Crowley, the occult, magik, summoning bandmates using the dark arts, and a bassist's unannounced flight to Iceland in anticipation of the nuclear holocaust... basically, par for the course if you're in a band. Forty years of making music together is bound to lead to a story or two...

Leigh's song pick:: Requiem by Killing Joke
https://open.spotify.com/track/29QxWOqd1z0HynG72mAEqn

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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
30 min
November 27, 2019 Episode 16: The Halifax Explosion (feat. Canadian History Ehx)
Our special guest Craig Baird from Canadian History Ehx takes us to World War 1 Halifax, and the largest accidental man-made explosion in history. Canadian listeners have definitely seen the Heritage Minute commercial, but we promise there is 100% more molten rain, tsunamis, shattered glass, and chaos. Nature even gets a blow in.

The Heritage Minute commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw-FbwmzPKo

Craig's song pick:: (Thursday) Here's Why I Did Not Go to Work Today by Harry Nilsson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h3nni7j2pc

Leigh's song pick:: The Wheel Weaves What The Wheel Wills by The Body/Thou
https://thou.bandcamp.com/track/the-wheel-weaves-as-the-wheel-wills

Peter's song pick:: Headache by METZ
https://metz.bandcamp.com/track/headache

Check out Canadian History Ehx (the podcast) wherever you listen!
Read the amazing blog: http://canadaehx.blogspot.com/
Follow Craig on Twitter: @CraigBaird

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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
40 min
November 19, 2019 Episode 15.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Smalls Lighthouse
If you're looking to get away... from everything... consider taking a job as a wickie in a lighthouse. Come with us on a journey back to the Great Lighthouse on Pharos near ancient Alexandria, through the history of lighthouses, and finally to a tale of isolation, death, and madness. There ain't nothing small about the Smalls Lighthouse Tragedy.

Peter's song pick:: Kiss All The Pretty Skies Goodbye by Rafael Anton Irisarri
https://room40.bandcamp.com/track/kiss-all-the-pretty-skies-goodbye

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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
22 min
November 13, 2019 Episode 15: Roanoke: The Lost Colony
Early English attempts at colonizing the Americas went real well. Take a journey back to the lost colony of Roanoke, as would-be settlers are greeted with shipwrecks, disease, starvation, and arrows. So many arrows. Forts make friends as the seeds of the United States are planted in the 16th century.

Leigh's song pick:: Bending Light by Neurosis
https://neurosis.bandcamp.com/track/bending-light

Peter's song pick:: A Nation of Immigrants by Wayfarer
https://wayfarercolorado.bandcamp.com/track/a-nation-of-immigrants-2

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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
1 hr 10 min
November 05, 2019 Episode 14.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Cerebus the Aardvark
In 1977, Dave Sim created a new kind of comic book anti-hero: a three-foot-tall, bipedal, anthropomorphic aardvark. Over the course of 300 issues and thirty years, this hero would travel to the moon, become the pope, and spend about a decade in a bar... and then it got weirder. Ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only... Cerebus the Aardvark.

Leigh's song pick:: Fracture by King Crimson
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ipS4tCSxn0z7NL6To7umt?si=qxNjaJFlQ8W28l4nDDG4ew

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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
46 min
October 30, 2019 Episode 14: The Black Death - Part 2
Templar curses, corpse-eating pigs, and waking up to a house full of death. We rejoin our Genoese heroes as they flee Caffa for the safety of home... coughing blood all the way. Their twelve galleys lit the fires that would consume 14th century Europe, resulting in a staggering death toll. It's amazing what a bacterium can do with the help of rodents and a filthy continent. Yersinia pestis: The Little Bug That Could.

Leigh's song pick:: The Hum by Killing Joke
https://open.spotify.com/track/3nj8CaxtiEcbvrVzvSpwJY

Peter's song pick:: Dream House by Deafheaven
https://open.spotify.com/track/6l3A2EWZSOA8LTMmzRCyD3

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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
1 hr 28 min
October 22, 2019 Episode 13.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Apollo One
The path to any great success is paved in failure... it's about what you do in the face of that failure. In the 1960s, NASA was pushing to win the race to the moon. Their efforts were nearly derailed when tragedy struck Apollo One and her crew. Going from the first flight to the first man on the moon in the space of 60 years was bound to be a challenge...

Peter's song pick:: Son of a Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ek9SiEj5a65WIs2EV7qiM

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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
31 min
October 16, 2019 Episode 13: The Black Death - Part 1
Every story starts somewhere. In the case of the Black Death it starts with Mongol hordes, smug Italians, diseased rodents, and the misery of 14th century Europe. All of that before we even get to the star of these episodes, the one and only, the Great Mortality.

Leigh's song pick:: Dead by Khanate
https://khanate.bandcamp.com/track/dead

Peter's song pick:: Crone by Portal
https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/crone

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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
57 min
October 08, 2019 Episode 12.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Satanic Panic and the PMRC
In the 80s and 90s, our youth were being corrupted by Satan and his apostles: heavy metal, Prince, and Madonna. In this week's (not-so)mini episode, Leigh tells us all about the Satanic Panic that gripped suburban America, and the totally proportional responses taken by Tipper Gore and her riders of the music-pocalypse.

Leigh's song pick:: We Come From the One by Sabbath Assembly
https://sabbathassembly.bandcamp.com/track/we-come-from-the-one

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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
53 min
October 02, 2019 Episode 12: Egyptian Famine
When your empire dates back six thousand years, odds are it's been through a lot. Still, history didn't prepare the population of Egypt in the beginning of the 13th century when the Nile, their lifesource, failed them. Twice. What happens when you run out of grain to eat? What happens when you run out of animals...

Leigh's song pick:: Invisible Osiris by Robedoor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ZWquariZo

Peter's song pick:: The Purging (Album) by Terra Tenebrosa
https://auroraborealisrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/disorder

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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
47 min